Join us for the annual Heritage Day Workshop, held at the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday, February 15, 2019.
Please note: this event does include mature themes that may not be appropriate for some audiences. To discuss content, or if you have accessibility concerns, please contact Sara Munroe at smunroe@brantford.ca or 519-751-9900 x5048.
Parking details: http://www.sandersoncentre.ca/VenueInfo/DirectionsandParking.aspx
Pre-registration is required. Register through Eventbrite: https://2019heritagedayworkshop.eventbrite.com
SCHEDULE
08:30 – 09:00: Registration
09:00 – 09:20: Welcome and Housekeeping
09:20 – 09:30: Introduction
09:30 – 10:35: Industrial History Panel with Q&A
– Bruce Hill, Member of the Brant Historical Society: “Brantford: The Town the Canal Made”
– Rob Adlam, Local Industrial Historian, “The Convergence: Industrial Brantford Finds Its Calling”
– Tara Tran, Senior Planner, Long Range Planning, City of Brantford and Joy O’Donnell, Chair, Mohawk Lake Working Group, “Mohawk Lake District: Revitalizing the Heart of our Communities”
– Moderator: Dara Bowser, Brantford Brownfields Community Advisory Committee
10:35 – 10:50: Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:20: Indigenous and Military History: Panel with Q&A (Part I)
– Paul Racher, Principal, Management and Senior Review, ARA Ltd., “A River Runs Through It: Grand River Archaeology as a Challenge to the Colonial Narrative”
– Phil Monture, TBD
– Rick Hill, “Haudenosaunee-Crown Alliance: A History of the Covenant Chain as it Relates to Military Matters”
– Moderator: Gary Warrick, Professor of Indigenous Studies and History, Wilfrid Laurier University
12:20 – 13:30: Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00: Indigenous and Military History (Part 2) (includes Virtual Tour of the Mohawk Institute Residential School)
– Paula Whitlow, Co-Executive Director and Carlie Myke, Outreach Coordinator, Woodland Cultural Centre, “The Former Mohawk Institute Residential School and the Save the Evidence Campaign”
15:00 – 15:15: Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:15: Cultural Revolution Panel with Q&A
– Karen Richardson, Curator, Haldimand County Museum & Archives, “How the Other Class Lived”
– Glenn Brown, Theatre Manager, Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, “From Temple to Sanderson Centre: A Century of Entertainment in Brantford’s ‘Supreme Playhouse'”
– Dr. Kate Carter, Associate Vice President: Teaching and Learning, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Let’s Keep Brantford Weird: Regenerating our Arts and Culture Legacy”
– Moderator: Eva Salter, Regional Advisor, Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport
16:15 – 16:30: Closing Remarks
If you have accessibility concerns, please contact Sara Munroe at smunroe@brantford.ca or 519-751-9900 x5048.
Photo credit: Dave Hind and the Aluminum Quilting Society, Jason Dong, Thomas Anderson, Bonnie Whitlow, Ralph Heather, Shana Elijah, Daniel Hill, Arlene Laskey, Steph Jacobs and Andrea Flockhart, “La Landscape de Kanata,” salvaged aluminum, 2017.
La Landscape de Kanata was made possible with assistance from the Province of Ontario, the City of Brantford, Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, Brant Community Foundation, The Crew / Real Estate, Murky Productions, and Brooks SIGNS.
